Good Samaritan Parable extension fanfic.

[mentalguru]

I TOTALLY forgot that ff.net has a bible section.

Was amused to see much hasn't changed since last glanced through it briefly....

Why are so few of them actually about the Bible?

So I decided to make this one-shot.

I've seen lots of 'AU' versions of the Good samaritan but never one to actually use the ORIGINAL characters.

Uses the characters of the Good Samaritan parable. Very quickly written:

www.fanfiction.net/s/5880321/1/Knowing

Long story short- the man helped by the Samaritan months later comes across one of the men who passed by on the other side when he himself was beaten and half dead in desperate need. What do you do when someone who didn't help you when you needed it needs help themselves?

[pitbulllady]

You know, at first, I thought that Randall and Sulley(or maybe Mike...or even one of the Cajuns from the trailer)were going to be the players here...until the donkey came into the picture. I CAN easily see this very scene being played out between them, though. I've often wondered, what if Mike or Sulley got trapped in the Human World, in Louisiana, and met with a similar fate to Randall's-being attacked and injured by humans, maybe shot, and barely escaping, only to fall later, weak and badly hurt, by some remote road through some lonely back-water swamp...and it was Randall who found them? A Randall who'd fully recovered, physically, from his own injuries, injuries he received when the very individual HE now finds had thrown HIM into this world to die, a Randall who'd been helped and who survived only through the kindness and care of a human, a member of a species that Randall and his kind had always been taught to dislike and fear, and a member of the same species that had attacked and injured him-how would he react to that? What would his thoughts upon finding one of his erstwhile rivals lying there, bleeding and groaning in pain, be? Would he follow up on the example shown to HIM by someone who had nothing to gain by helping him, or would he leave them to die? Or, what it things were reversed, and it was Sulley who comes across a badly-injured Randall, someone who'd once tried to kill HIM-what would HE do?

The parable of the Good Samaritan is made stronger by the fact that the Jews and Samaritans hated each other, and the Jews considered the Samaritans to be "unclean". They were rivals for land and resources in a part of the world where the latter are still very hard to come by, so as with Sulley and Randall, there was no love lost between those groups. Yet, the Samaritan was the only person who sought to help the beaten Hebrew man.

pitbulllady

[mentalguru]

Yup, I'm aware that was a part of the story (the Samaritans being hated and vice versa), but I thought it might be an interesting take/extension for the character who was helped to come face to face with someone who passed by on the other side as in need.

Even if even if the context of the bible he wasn't real just thought it would be an interesting idea. -shrugs- Biblical fanon as it were.

Thieves were pretty desperate there and then, didn't care who they 'mugged' were rich or poor etc. (Though beating until half dead? Actually pretty rare apparently.) Anyone could be a victim and you would think that it might happen to one of the three (if you know if they'd been real) and they continued to travel on that road regulary. The fact that someone they abandoned happened across them just seemed interesting too.

'Do onto others' and all that, even if they didn't do the same for you. Pretty much what I was trying to convey, as well as the idea of evil potentially happening when good men fail to do the right thing. Though in this case he did the right thing.

But I wanted the guy to struggle with the idea, because even generally good people probably would.

It was pretty short though. But I kind of glanced at the bible ff.net section and was slightly appalled.

Completely seems to be people either
a) Looking for shock tactics
b) People with screwy Martyr complexes despite living in a Western democratic country and seem to think there is a conspiracy against their religion there.

...

Actually pretty few were based on the bible that much.

Some good things there too, not all of them bad but still- GAH. The bible section is dire there.